“I think that hoodie hoke thing is laughable because it has no relevance,” Ed Halcomb, 62, said. “That came from the media, all of this does. Those pictures they have are from when he was 13, four years before his death. It’s just laughable.”

“I don’t know what I would do if that happened to someone I loved,” 17-year-old Chad Lenczycki said. “When people first started talking about it I couldn’t help but imagine what it would be like to come to school and hear about it the next day.”

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